Persistence at the tree line: Old trees as opportunists

Arctic

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 367-370

  Trant, Andrew J ^a   Jameson, Ryan G ^a   Hermanutz, Luise ^a  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

Author keywords

Black spruce; Climate change; Dendrochronology; Forest tundra ecotone; Krummholz; Labrador; Mealy mountains; Persistence; Picea mariana; Tree line

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CONIFEROUS TREE; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; ECOTONE; GROWTH RATE; GROWTH RESPONSE; PERSISTENCE; SYNCHRONY; TREELINE; WARMING;

CANADA; LABRADOR; NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR;

PICEA MARIANA;

EID: 80052465347     PISSN: 00040843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14430/arctic4126     Document Type: Article

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